Word: glamourizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Impossible the job may be; it is unquestionably important. Says retired Diva Beverly Sills, now director of the New York City Opera: "The Met has the funding, wonderful facilities, glamour, international stars. It is the most prestigious opera house in the world." As such, the Met must act as an aural museum, preserving and displaying the standard repertory: works such as La Traviata, Tosca and Die Meistersinger. But an opera house must also be active in reviving worthy pieces and commissioning new ones. Under Levine's artistic administration, the Met has successfully explored new territory in such operas...
This is a glamour girl in the coyote fur coat, an American aristocrat, the goddaughter of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Cornelia Cochrane Churchill Guest, 19, the youngest child of a socially prominent family, grew up on Long Island and in Palm Beach and New York City. She spent 1982 as a debutante, and all year long the New York gossip journalists mentioned her in print, often dusting off a quaint epithet: deb of the year. "I don't get tired of it," she says, having finished her eggs and her Tab and three more cigarettes cadged from...
...year after C.Z. came out, Brenda Frazier became "America's No. 1 Glamour Deb." Her name and photograph were everywhere during 1938, including the cover of LIFE, and there was a backlash: people would sometimes hiss when she walked into a restaurant. Frazier died last May-after a nervous breakdown, two marriages and a notoriously messy liaison with a titled Italian playboy-still bitter about her overwhelming deb year. "Brenda Frazier was my parents' friend," Cornelia says. "So sad. But I don't want to read about her until I get older...
...Walt Disney World to become the most popular single travel resort in the U.S. Says Lee Isgur, a respected gambling-industry analyst with the New York City investment firm of Paine Webber Mitchell Hutchins Inc.: "Basically, the eastern half of the country has discovered the excitement and glamour of legalized casino gambling. Millions of people can now drive two or three hours at the most, gamble for the evening, then turn around and go home...
DIED. Catherine Mackin, 44, a network news correspondent for eleven years; of cancer; at her home in Towson, Md. Blond and blue-eyed in the TV glamour mold, she proved tougher and more competent than many of her male colleagues. She emerged from six years as a Hearst newspaper reporter to gain national acclaim as an aggressive floor reporter for NBC at the 1972 political conventions. Shifting to ABC in 1977, she covered Capitol Hill and national politics...